rescue
English
/ˈɹɛs.kjuː/
verb
Definitions
- To save from any violence, danger or evil.
- To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
- To recover forcibly.
- To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
- (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
- (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English rescouen derived from Old French rescoure.
Origin
Old French
rescoure
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- kit English
- man English
- neurorescue English
- pararescue English
- pararescueman English
- pararescuer English
- rescuable English
- rescuee English
- rescueless English
- rescueman English
- rescuer English
- sea English
- sea rescue kit English
- self-rescuer English
- unrescuable English
- rescouen Middle English
- rescoure Old French
- reskyu Cebuano